I have a bent and battered 2.0, that went through some crashes. First, the Mediatek GPS got ripped off and I went with an external U-Blox. Then, to my astonishment, I found the SD-Card-like dataflash…Continue

Greetings.I have a quad equipped with RcTimer 5010 360KV motors and 16 inch props, running on 4S LiPo. Nice and steady platform for FPV and amateur video, flew it all spring and summer with a chinese…Continue

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"I have Guided as one of my 6 flight modes. I select it on my TX then grab the tablet and hit Follow. Last I played with it was in July and it kinda' worked.
There's some behaviour I don't like. It won't hold the altitude you…"

"Unlike other ESCs come with an "airplane" firmware - with features like braking, soft-start or voltage cutoff - and can be reprogrammed with open-source code, the Afro series was designed by Mr. Hamasaki (aka TimeCop) and ran SimonK code…"

"Matt.
If your ESCs won't calibrate off your receiver throttle channel, then the problem lies not with the Pixhawk. And buying a DJI FC won't solve it.
I have no experience with the 70AHV, but I've played alot with K-Force 40As and…"

"You're too heavy.
2:1 thrust/weight ratio is the barely minimum acceptable for safe hover.With 3:1 ratio you can fly OK, with some sluggish recovery from sporty maneouvers when the LiPo is almost empty."

"Coaxial setups and GoPro footage don't get along too well.
Because of the bottom propeller arcs, you are forced to mount your gimbal close to the aircraft center, and it will be hard to keep both the aforementioned props and the landing gear…"

"The M8N is fun. I get 11 sats and 1.0 HDOP in my livingroom, and that's below a metal roof and a reinforced concrete floor.
But then I removed the NEO module and antenna and replaced a NEO-6 on a GPS that has external SAW and LNA. What do you…"

"Ben, starting with any DJI autopilot is not a good ideea. It's an extremely beginner-friendly system, that will actually teach one to gude the flying machine, not to fly it.
The GPS and Simple/Supersimple modes (equivalent to…"

"I'm doing some comparative tests between a pair of "vanilla" GPSes, one Crius CN-06v2 and other Reyax RY825Al, sporting a NEO-6 and a NEO-M8N respectively, with just a 25x25x4mm ceramic antenna each, and no external LNA/SAW.
I saw…"

"Forgot the name, but it's that board Nick Arsov is building in Bulgaria.
I personally don't like it because it has too few DF-13s. (-:
Frankly, before Gary came up with the sparkfun link, I was thinking of someone hacking into 3DR servers…"